Unified Security Gateway

The Secure Web Gateway for the New Internet

Information Security Product of the Year

As organizations and users alike are utilizing a combination of enterprise and publicly available tools, applications, and communities, the Internet and corporate networks are awash with Web 2.0 applications such as social networks, instant messaging, VoIP, gaming, and sharing applications.  

Actiance's Unified Security Gateway (USG) is the only Secure Web Gateway to combine feature and content controls of social networks with the monitoring, management, and security of Web 2.0 applications. USG provides granular control of not only websites and applications but also the content posted  to blogs, wikis, webmail, and social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

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USG Highlights

  • Broadest controls for Internet and Web 2.0 applications, including P2P, IM, IPTV, Web conferencing, and social media
  • Granular controls for Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, including monitoring, moderation, and archiving
  • Strongest controls for Skype (e.g., blocking malicious URLs within Skype IMs)
  • Archiving capabilities for IM, social media, and HTTP/S traffic (e.g., webmail and blog posts)
  • Industry-leading reporting capabilities, including outbound threats and malware

Key Features

Security

  • Moderate, log, and archive all content posted to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter
  • Granular feature controls for Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter
  • Control content posted to blogs and sent via webmail to prevent leakage of confidential information
  • Scan content for viruses received over HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, and IM channels
  • Dynamically filter millions of websites and URLs using predefined and customizable categories
  • Enforce acceptable corporate Web policies through allow, block, or "coach" access to categories or individual websites
  • Real-time protection against malware, rootkits and botnets
  • Stop access to malware-infected websites

Compliance

  • Monitor, control, and record content posted to social networks and blogs or sent via webmail
  • Block elements of Web content or media that fall outside of corporate policy or compromise compliance with regulatory requirements
  • Tamper-proof logging and archival for compliance and eDiscovery requirements
  • Archive actual files transferred over IM for comprehensive review and audit processes
  • Leverage and integrate with existing archiving solutions (e.g., EMC, Enterprise Vault, etc.)
  • Create ethical boundaries by setting policies at user or group level for IM usage
  • Apply IM disclaimer messages to educate users and meet legal, audit, and regulatory requirements

Management

  • Manage productivity through time and bandwidth quota setting as well as allocation controls by group or user
  • Granular control at group and user levels for location-independent policy enforcement across all modalities
  • Unified policy management and enforcement for all real-time Internet activities
  • Simple installation and integration with existing network infrastructure
  • Secure management console for centralized configuration, management, and reporting
  • Supports use of external database for policies, logging and archival for scalability and availability

Deployment

USG may be deployed with a Web/FTP proxy server, (Blue Coat,Squid or ISA); through an ICAP-based connector; in-line with its own onboard proxy; or in simple pass-by mode as a plug-and-play deployment which requires no change to existing network configurations. See the feature sets available for each to determine the deployment that best suits your environment.

Span Port/Pass-by Deployment
ICAP/Proxy Deployment
ICAP/Proxy Deployment with BlueCoat
Proxy-only Deployment

 Download the Actiance Unified Security Gateway datasheet.